Nurburgring WEC: Hartley leads Porsche 1-2 in second practice

Brendon Hartley topped the times in the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid in the 90-minute session, which was interrupted by a short red-flag stoppage and light rain.

His 1m38.663s put him nearly a second ahead of teammate Andre Lotterer, who ended up on a 1m39.629s in the #1 machine.

Top Toyota driver Anthony Davidson was just behind, falling less than two tenths short with a 1m39.773s in the #8 TS050 Hybrid.

The sister #7 car was a further 1.8s in arrears in Kamui Kobayashi's hands.

The G-Drive Racing team led the way in LMP2 with a 1m47.188s from Ben Hanley, who is driving the team's #26 Oreca in place of Alex Lynn this weekend.

Rebellion took second in class thanks to a 1m47.410s from Mathias Beche in the #13 Oreca.

The top positions in GTE Pro category were shared by all four manufacturers.

Porsche was quickest with a 1m56.244s from Frederic Makowiecki, which put him almost exactly a tenth up on Aston Martin driver Nicki Thiim.

Ferrari took third in the with Alessandro Pier Guidi setting a 1m56.766s, while Stefan Mucke was fourth for Ford.

Miguel Molina was the quickest driver in GTE Am for the AF Corse-run Spirit of Race Ferrari team.

Practice results:

Pos.	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	2	Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'38.663
2	1	Andre Lotterer Neel Jani Nick Tandy	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'39.629	0.966
3	8	Anthony Davidson Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'39.773	1.110
4	7	Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'41.656	2.993
5	26	Roman Rusinov Pierre Thiriet Ben Hanley	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.188	8.525
6	13	Pipo Derani David Heinemeier Hansson Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.410	8.747
7	36	Nicolas Lapierre Gustavo Menezes Matt Rao	Alpine A470	LMP2	1'47.604	8.941
8	35	Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues Andre Negrao	Alpine A470	LMP2	1'47.755	9.092
9	25	Vitaly Petrov Simon Trummer Roberto Gonzalez	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.889	9.226
10	38	Oliver Jarvis Ho-Pin Tung Thomas Laurent	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'48.326	9.663
11	4	Marco Bonanomi Oliver Webb Dominik Kraihamer	ENSO CLM P1/01	LMP1	1'48.592	9.929
12	37	David Cheng Tristan Gommendy Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'48.705	10.042
13	28	François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Matthieu Vaxivière	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'49.127	10.464
14	24	Roberto Merhi Jonathan Hirschi Tor Graves	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'49.179	10.516
15	34	Nigel Moore Philip Hanson	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	1'50.165	11.502
16	91	Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'56.244	17.581
17	95	Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'56.343	17.680
18	51	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'56.766	18.103
19	66	Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'56.812	18.149
20	71	Toni Vilander Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'56.919	18.256
21	97	Darren Turner Jonathan Adam Daniel Serra	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'56.965	18.302
22	54	Francesco Castellacci Miguel Molina Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	1'57.592	18.929
23	67	Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'57.613	18.950
24	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'57.685	19.022
25	61	Matt Griffin Mok Weng Sun Keita Sawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	1'57.802	19.139
26	77	Christian Ried Matteo Cairoli Marvin Dienst	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	1'57.985	19.322
27	98	Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage V8	LMGTE AM	1'58.330	19.667
28	86	Michael Wainwright Ben Barker Nick Foster Jr.	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	1'59.211	20.548